Joe Carnahan

NEW YORK — So far James Spader is enjoying the closely cropped hairdo he sports as criminal mastermind Raymond "Red" Reddington in the new NBC drama "The Blacklist." But, he warned recently during a break in filming at Chelsea Piers in Manhattan, "Let's wait till winter."

The shorn look may be a departure for Spader, known among other things for his impressively lush locks, but the character is more in line with the charismatic creeps he's played over the years in films such as "sex, lies and videotape" and "Secretary."

In the pilot episode of the series, which premieres at 10 p.m. Sept. 23 in the plum time slot after...

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